Our Response to Coping with Certain Mental Health Discords
Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD)
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychological reaction that occurs after experiencing stress that has caused life-threatening extreme mental trauma. An individual’s quality of life is greatly reduced by re-experiencing the situation with awakening, anxiety, agitation, and insomnia symptoms. Among PTSD, many VR studies have been focused on veterans who have been exposed to battles in Iraq and Afghanistan to alleviate their trauma, reduce suicidal ideation, decrease depression and anger, and improve their PTSD.
Anxiety Disorders and Specific Phobia
These days, some VR systems create highly immersive experiences using more invasive devices such as head-mounted Displays (HMDs). A new generation of realistic simulation can, therefore, serve as a promising assessment and therapy for erroneous anxiety-provoking thinking.
Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)
Lessons from the Nun study have revealed that cognitive reserve and training are also crucial in preventing Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia is a broad term describing such disorders of the brain that progress over time. Basically, VR has been applied to evaluate cognitive dysfunction and detect MCI and has exhibited very high accuracy.
